Re: [LI] Problem with mgetty.

["Nagarjuna G." <nagarjun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Pankaj Mathur wrote:

->hi folks,
->Sorry for pasting a somewhat long output. I follwed the article of PC Quest 
->Mar 99 " Configure your Linux server for access through a modem"by Vivek 
->Kumar and Atul Chitnis and I am facing the follwing problems:
->A) At home after doing 'init q' to force the system to reread the 
->'/etc/inittab file so that it can start mgetty with the options given there. 
->But it locks the modem and my ppp interface - there should be some way of 
->manually stopping  mgetty to free the device for dialing out to ISP. I want 
->to know what option to use with mgetty to disable it temporarily  - man & 
->info pages were not of much help.

I use -r option, and it works. 

Nagarjuna

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